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Tech Lounge podcast

Every two weeks, the tech lounge invites tech luminaries, entrepreneurs, and creatives from small scrappy startups and open source enthusiasts to those working in large global companies. If you're interested in deep and creative technology and conversations with some of its most interesting practitioners, this is the show for you. Come in and get yourself comfortable.

Love, life, leisure and technology

Love, life, leisure and technology

31/08/2017

This week Cate and Chris discuss the intersections of journalism, immortality, music, romance and government with technology. Show notes at http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast Support the show at http://gregariousmammal…

Datical - Bringing DevOps practices to Database Administrators

Datical - Bringing DevOps practices to Database Administrators

22/08/2017

I spoke with Robert Reeves, CTO and Co-founder of Datical, a company that aims to remove the pain that database administrators (DBAs) experience on a regular basis attempting to make changes to database heavy application…

Pepperdata - Bringing DevOps Practices to the Big Data World

Pepperdata - Bringing DevOps Practices to the Big Data World

16/08/2017

Big Data analysis generally involves piping large data sets into processing systems such as Apache Spark and Hadoop, walking away for a very long coffee and returning later to a hopefully successful result. The DevOps an…

Generation what now?

Generation what now?

15/08/2017

This week Cate and Chris discuss how smart phones are destroying a generation, cybersecurity, documentation, tech diversity and more. Show notes - gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] Suppo…

Steadily Serving the Web for 12 years, Liam Crilly from NGINX

Steadily Serving the Web for 12 years, Liam Crilly from NGINX

25/07/2017

NGINX is one of the most popular web servers on the internet. Just a shade behind the market leader it emerged roughly ten years ago to provide an alternative to the venerable Apache, designed to suit modern traffic dema…

Scott Heiferman - The past, present and future of meeting people with meetup founder

Scott Heiferman - The past, present and future of meeting people with meetup founder

24/07/2017

There's a high chance that if you have attended an event in a city in recent years, it was arranged through meetup.com [http://meetup.com]. The site now has over 32 million members, over a quarter of a million meetup gro…

What Affect Is Tech Having on Society? An Interview With Yael Eisenstat

What Affect Is Tech Having on Society? An Interview With Yael Eisenstat

20/07/2017

Chris speaks to Yael Eisenstat about technology, how it can divide society into tribal bubbles and what we or tech companies can and should do about it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/…

Becoming the First Cyborg with Liviu Babitz

Becoming the First Cyborg with Liviu Babitz

19/07/2017

Chris and Cate speak to Liviu Babitz from Cyborgs Nest about the past, present and future of Cyborgs.

Jeff Luszcz of Flexera - Helping make Open Source Secure and Compliant

Jeff Luszcz of Flexera - Helping make Open Source Secure and Compliant

19/07/2017

Chris speaks to Jeff Luszcz about how Flexera aims to make software that relies on open source components more secure, compliant and sustainable. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message…

Lucas Carlson of Automic - Taking DevOps beyond developers

Lucas Carlson of Automic - Taking DevOps beyond developers

17/07/2017

Chris speaks with Lucas Carlson, novelist and strategist about Automic and how they are working to take DevOps beyond developers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a publ…

Brian Behlendorf of Hyperledger

Brian Behlendorf of Hyperledger

06/07/2017

I speak with Brian Behlendorf, one of the key developers behind the Apache Web Server, a Mozilla and EFF board member, and Executive Director of the Hyperledger foundation, a project that aims to bring Blockchain mainstr…

The Missing Link(s)

The Missing Link(s)

04/07/2017

Cate and Chris discuss the latest news, tech developments, and events from the past couple of days. Including Chat Bots, Ethereum, Petya and Cats writing Physics papers. More at gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gre…

Pravin Halady of NodeSource

Pravin Halady of NodeSource

29/06/2017

I sat down with Pravin Halady, product manager at NodeSource to discuss why enterprise developers might need a safer and more secure version of Node.JS and NPM and what it's like running a business where your biggest com…

Pioneers 2017 interviews part 2 - Blockchain, IoT and Education

Pioneers 2017 interviews part 2 - Blockchain, IoT and Education

27/06/2017

Chris speaks to dozens of interesting people at this years Pioneers conference in Vienna, in part 2 are: Salix - 00:00 ubirch - 09:02 Fable - 30:19 More details at gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.…

How do techies and creatives learn best with Jessica Lovegood

How do techies and creatives learn best with Jessica Lovegood

19/06/2017

In this episode Cate and Chris talk with Jessica Lovegood, a UX designer with a passion for understanding how people in the tech industry learn. gregariousmammal.com/podcast [http://gregariousmammal.com/podcast] for sho…

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